St Monica’s Primary School - Evatt
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Moynihan Street
Evatt ACT 2617
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Email: office.stmonicas@cg.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 02 6258 5105

Library News - Veronica Melville

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 Children’s Book Council of Australia Book  Week

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This week is Book Week. If you missed the announcement of the winning books for 2021 you can watch it here https://cbca.org.au

On Friday 27 August students will be able to wear a mask or even dress up as a book character for their whole group meeting. This is a chance for the students to be creative with the theme in designing their mask. The theme opens a world of possible whether it be other cultures, an ancient world, or aliens or a book character from an old world, new world or other world. Dont forget to have your book ready to show everyone.

Libraries ACT

If you are looking for books or resources Libraries ACT has great resources online. They have eBooks and audio books, BusyCode that gives an introduction to coding, BusyThings games and activities for 3-5 year olds, and Kanopy Kids a collection of children’s movies and shows.  If you are not a member you can join at https://librariesact.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/JOIN

It is free to join.

Reading and Sora

The students have been able to borrow extra books for the remote learning.  If they read all these books, they can access eBooks and audio books. Your ACEN Overdrive and Sora eBook/audiobook online system is accessible to you with your CE network login 24/7. 

The ACEN OverDrive website is located at http://acen.lib.overdrive.com or by searching in the Apple store or Google Play for the OverDrive app. (link).  When asked to search for a library, click to search by ‘Name’, not location, and then search for ‘ACEN’. 

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